~Homeless Man Tearfully Watches As Police Destroy His Shelter~

Sam had just one request for police about to destroy the makeshift shelter in the woods he’d built: “Can I watch?”

The video below, showing a visibly shaken Sam become teary-eyed as his home of several years crumbles to the ground, is promoting a new documentary shedding light at the current realities of homelessness in America.

Filmmaker Jack Ballo became inspired to document Tent City in Lakewood after filming the Dominican Republic’s homeless. Ballo will premiere his latest film effort, the documentary “Destiny’s Bridge,” to a sold-out crowd at Two River Theatre on Wednesday.

“Destiny’s Bridge,” a project sponsored by nonprofit Fractured Atlas and produced by filmmaker Jack Ballo, focuses on homeless minister Steve Brigham, who lives in the woods of New Jersey among dozens of others in similar circumstances. According to a fundraising page for the film…